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Til STIIIUI
4. R. WIKLE, Editor.
CASSVIH-E, 6E0.
Wednesday Morning,
AUGUST 1. I860.
Valedictory.
In dissolving our connection with the
Standard, it is proper to inform our friends
that it has been the result, solely, of dif
ference ef political opinion. The Standard
and Express hare always been Democrat
ic, and up to the late unfortunate rupture
in the party, the Editors and Proprietors
harmonized in sentiment. The party,
however, is hopelessly divided upon what
we, the undersigned, deem of vital impor
tance to the interests, honor and safety of
our section. We, therefore, felt itour du-
t j to advocate the election of Breckinridge
and Lane as the representatives of the on
ly party capable of giving the South her
just and equal rights in the Union. Our
friend, Mr. Wikle, with equal honesty and
candor felt it to be his duty to support the
Douglas and Johnson wing of the old par
ly. We could not, therefore, harmonize;
and as this division of opinion became em-
bsrassing and liable to misconstruction,
we have disposed of our interests in the
Standard to Judge Wikle.
In parting with our kind readers and
patrons of the Standard, we can but ex
press eur gratitude for the many acts of
kindness and “ good will” shown us dur
ing the connection. We bid them adieu,
sorrowfully; but with less regret as our
esteemed friend is to fill our places more
ably and worthily.
We part with our old companion and
fellow-laborer, Judge Wikle, with reluc
tance and regret—with feelings none oth-
rr than the best. We wish him that suc
cess and happiness to which his talent and
merit so justly entitles him.
W. T. GOLDSMITH,
S. H. SMITH.
Sons of Temperance.
We ere pleased to know that the citi-
sens of thie place are about organizing a
Division of the Sons of Temqerance. At
a meeting of those who had petitioned for
a charter, on last Thursday, a full set of
officers were elected.
So soon as the charter is received, tha
officers will be installed, and the Diviiion
regularly organized. It will be known as
- i ... Division” No. . We hop#
this Division will meet with a success
Hoary Clay and Mon-Interrantion.
' Whatever political opponents may hav#
said of Henry Clay, in regard to his no
tions of govern mental policy, none newer
dared charge him with being actuated by
other than the most patriotic motives.—
The object nearest his heart was that the
union of these States might be preserved,
end that we might become the greatest,
happiest and most prosperous people upon
earth. The last official acts of his life was
rendered in the passage af the Compromise
Measures of 1880. It was his earnest de
sire that tha slavery question might be
forever removed from the halls of Cougreas
He bad witnessed for near half a century,
the baleful effects of the agitation of the
slavery question by Congress. He there
fore had the principle of non-intervention
incorporated into the bills for the organi-
nation ef Territorial Governments for U :
tab and New Mexico, by which the peo
ple of those Territories were lift “perfect
ly free to regulate their domestic institu
tions in their own way, subject only to
the Constitution of the United States.”
Mr. Douglas visited Mr. Clay when on
his death-bed, and he refers to that visit
in a speech delivered at Bloomington, Ill.,
in 1858, during his canvass with Mr. Lin
coln. After alluding to the right of every
State and Territory to regulate their do
mestic institutions in their own way. He
commensurate with the object for which
it is established, and that it may be the
means of rescuing many from the insatiate
jaws of drunkenness.
says—
“ These are my views and these are the
principles to which I have devoted all my
energies since 1850, when I acted side by
side with the immortal Clay and the god
like Webster in that memorable struggle
in which Whigs and Democrats united
upon a common platform of patriotism and
the Constitution, throwing aside partisan
feelings in order to restore peace and har
mony to a distracted country. And when
I stood beside the death-bed of Mr. Clay
and heard him refer with feelings and emo
tions of the deepest solicitude to the wel
fare of the country, and saw that he look
ed upon the principle embodied in the
great Compromise measures of 1850, the
principle of the Nebraska Bill, the doctrine
of leaving each State and Territory free to
decide ita institutions for itself, as the on
ly means by which the peace of the coun
try could be preserved, and the Union per
petuated, I pledged him, on that death
bed of his, that so long as I lived my en
ergies should be devoted to the vindication
of that principle, and of his fame connec
ted with it. (‘ Hear, hear,’ and great en
thusiasm.) I gave the same pledge to the
great expounder of the Constitution, he
who hus'Jbeen called the * godlike Web
ster.’ I looked up to Clay and him as a
son would to a father, and I call upon the
people of Illinois, and the people of the
whole Union to bear testimony that never
since the sod has been laid upon the graves
of those eminent statesmen have I failed
on any occasion, to vindicate the principle
with which the last great crowning acts of
their lives were identified, or to vindicate
their names whenever they hare been as
sailed ; and now my life and energy are
devoted to this great work ts the means
of preserving the Union.”
This is tho pledge made by Mr. Doug
las to that greet stateeman and pure pa
triot, Henry Clay; and nobly sad manly
has he kept that pledge, yet for doing so,
he is assailed With • bitterness unknown
to political warfare. Where is the old
Olay Whig, who reveres the memory and
i great achievements of his political idol,
For tho Richmond Nominees.
We have received the third number of
the “Southern Intelligencer,” published
at Jackson, -Miss. The paper contains its
prospectus, the first paragraph of which
commences thus:—“ The Southern Intel
ligencer, in polities, is devoted to the Con
stitution and laws, and the rights of the
Southern States, and will, with all its zeal
and ability, support the nominees of the
late Richmond Convention, in the distin
guished personages of Hon. J. C. Breck
inridge and Gen. Joe Lane.” This is the
first paper, out of South Carolina, which
we hare seen that is supporting the nom
inees of the Richmond Convention. Most
of tho Breckinridge papers of this State
support him as the National Democratic
nominee. In some sections he is suppor
ted as the Southern Rights candidate—in
others as a sectional candidate—and in
some places as the Union candidate.
The Legislature.
The Constitutionalist of the 27th ult.,
says that it has received comparatively
few letters yet from the various counties,
giving the position of the members of the
Legislature with reference to the^fesiden-
tial election. It says—“From twenty five
counties we have reliable and reported,
and generally believed statements, and so
for the position of parties in the Legisla
ture stand thus—
For Brockinridge and Lane, twenty six;
for Douglas and Johnson, twenty; for
Bell and Everett ten, and classed as doubt-
fel three. - The Legislature is composed
of throe hundred and one members.
Gov. H. Y. Johnson, candidate for Vice
President, was to have addressed the citi-
mm of Savannah on last Monday evening.
Hu arrived in Savannah on last Saturday.
He want there at thesoliritftion ofa num
ber of his friends of that city. Mr. John
son » a powerful speaker, and we may ex
pect to hear that his speech has had a
good for the cause of National Dem-
eeraey.
HT Of the eight candidates for Presi
dent and Vice President, they are all Sen-
aton or Ex-Senators, except Lincoln, who
would now hare been in the Senate could
he have been elected, when a candidate
i the attention of <
t aard of Mrs. Isaacs to
r advertising columns.
who has it in his heart to denounce Steph
en A. Douglas for keeping inviolate his
pledge to that eying patriot ? It was the
governing principle of all our leading
statesmen, now no more, to remove forev
er from the halls of Congress the agitation
of the most exciting question that ever
sprung up to distract our country. That
was the leading feature ofthe compromise
measures of 1850—it was the paramount
idea with the Georgia Convention of 1850
in acquiescing in that Compromise—it
was the leading feature of the Kansas Ne
braska act, which recommended that act
especially to the fevor of the South—it
was the same principle embodied in the
Cincinnati platform in 1856, and re-adop
ted by both the Conventions at Baltimore.
The Democratic party is pledged by that
platform to crush out the agitation of the
slavery question, both in Congress and
out, in whatever shape or form it may ap
pear.
Our Candidates.
We consider Douglas snd Johnson the
regularly nominated candidates of the
Democratic party. We have ever made it
a rule to support the regular nominees of
our party, and believing these gentlemen
were nominated by the only regular Dem
ocratic Convention, we will give them our
feeble but earnest support. While we do
this, we shall make no war upon any of
the other candidates who reside in the
South, as to their soundness on the slave
ry question. Some of the opponents of
Bell and Breckinridge may, and perhaps
hare assailed them as nnsound on that
who are really for disunion, believe that
by destroying the Democratic party, that
they can then accomplish tbeir long cher
ished object. Whether they shall be per
mit ted to do this, is for the Democratic
masses to determine. By rallying to the
National Democratic nominees, they can
elect them over all opposition, and save
the country and the Democratic party from
destruction.
Mr. Douglas and the 8upreme Court
It is frequently charged that Judge
Douglas had repudiated the decision of
the Supreme Court, but it is well known
to everyone who has taken the trouble to
read his speeches, that nothing is farther
from the truth than that charge. In his
letter of acceptance he says that the judi
cial authority must be maintained, and its
decisions implicitly obeyed. He has ex
pressed about the same sentiments in eve
ry speech made by him in the United
States Senate. We have heretofore pub
lished his letter entire, but we again pub
lish the following extract from it:
“ If we now depart from that wise and
just policy, (non-intervention by Congress
with slavery in the States and Territories)
which produced these happy results and
permit the country to be again distracted,
if not precipitated into revolution by a
sectional contest between pro-slavery and
anti slavery interventionists, where shalj
we look for another Clay, another Web
ster, or another Cass to pilot the ship of
State over the breakers into the haven of
peace and safety ? The Federal Union
must be preserved. The Constitution must
be maintained inviolate in all its parts.—
Every right guaranteed by the Constitu
tion must be protected by law in all cases
where legislation is necessary to its enjoy
ment. The judicial authority, as provided
in the Constitution, must be sustained,
and its decisions implicitly obeyed and
faithfully executed. The laws must be
administered and the Constitutional au
thorities upheld, and all unlawful resis
tance suppressed.
These things must all be done with firm
ness, impartiality and fidelity, if wo ex
pect to enjoy and transmit, unimpaired to
our posterity that blessed inheritance
which we have received in trust from the
patriots and sages of the Revolution.”
jy We are requested to state that
there will be preaching at the Baptist
Church in this place on Thursday morn
ing next, by Rev. L. B. Fish, and singing
for the children at five o’clock P. M. Also
exercises of the same kind at night.
The Grain Crop* at the South
This is rather a sad subject to enter up
on, as we can say nothing to cast a cheer
ing ray upon the gloom that reigns almost
universally throghout the Southern States.
In Georgia nothing like the present drought
has been known for many years, and dis
astrous accounts reach us from nearly all
the cottton-growing States. It is impos
sible to say what proportion of our State
involved in the calamity; in some Dis
tricts the -wops were never better, while
in middle, southwestern, and the grantor
portion of tho Cherokee regions, corn is
literally parched to a cinder, and that af
ter a failure of the small grain crops in the
spring. In some of these localities there
has bean no rain of consequence since
the first of April, and the prospectis utter-
ly desperate, come what may hereafter.—
Southwestern Georgia already drawing on
the market for grain, and has no crop
coming on.
Many portions of South Carolina are al
so suffering, but not to the same extent
as in Gssrgia; the corn crop, though, will
be very far below an average.
In East Tennessee, the grain-growing
region of the South, the wheat crop foiled
and com is most unpromising from
drought .
Alabama has also suffered greatly, and
in many places the destruction by drought
and heat is complete. The middle and
eastern portion are mostly affected and in
these all hope of bread is given up.
What we have said of Alabama is appli
cable to Mississippi, while Louisiana has
suffered to even a greater degree. In many
of the parishes the streams are dried «P.
and corn perfectly white in the fields.
In Texas, though, the foilure is perhaps
more universal than in any other State.—
Every portion of that State seems to have
been blighted, and bar difficulties in com
municating withother portions ofthe conn
try will greatly augment the distress of
the population the coming year.
Florida so for as wa have boon able to
learn, is better off than any at her sisters
though she too will be brought below an
average in her crop.
This is a sad story, but ita sequel will
be seder still. Oar connection by railroads
with the teeming Northwest will enable
many to provide against absolute want,
but the poor will be without means to
buy, and their future is dark indeed.
None ofthe accounts seem to warrant
the conclusion that any material damage
; tne conclusion uuu may wuwgc
question. We shall not do this, unless it j ^ beeQ b y the cotton crop.—
be in defence of the position of our candi-1 fcfcjr ]ocalities which are most affec-
dates. When they are assailed, we may j ^ w j t | 1 ^yght, it has drooped and
present the records ef the ethers simply j ^ much ^ its fruit , bat generally it is
to show that they all, at one time, stood well „ d promises an Abundant
together. We know that Judge Douglas
is assailed with a bitterness which has
never been surpassed, if equalled, in any
former political contest, and that those
who support him, come in for their full
yield.—Satanoh Republican.
One of our eastern exchanges says': Tha
report that Ex-President Pierce will not
support Douglas isfidse. He furnished
share of abuse. But we believe it to be the ammunkioo for the salute of fivehun-
our duty, as a Southern man, to support -which was fired in Conwd in
the great Statesman of the North West— j j, oa#r of Douglas’ nomination.
a man who has stood by the South and j „
defended her rights and institutions, both! Sum** Dsam—Mrs. Geo. »•
in Congress snd throughout the North, wife of one of our oldest etttsena and mcr-
for the last twenty-five years. WeTully chants, died very suddenly m Cherokee
believe that the opposition to him in the county Ala., on the 2oth inst, at tnerasi-
pnrty is produced by Presidential aspirants dance efher brother. Dr. Rawls. Shehad
on-the oneband^nd by disunionists on the been affiicted with asthma for many years,
other His rivals were determined to kill H« remains were brought to this city on
him off even at the expense of the disco- Thursday mid interred yesterday morn-
lutien ofthe democratic party, and those Courier. 28fA.
Fom Tn Standaeb.
Ms. Editos :—Since I wrote my former
communication to you, I have not seen,
board or read anything from tha seoaders
—from the heads of section, or tbs rank
and file—that looks or tends to tho har
mony of omr party. All, from Yancey "bright land of liberty, and I call upon the
down, are abusing, denouncing Mr. Doug
las and the eld Cincinnati platform. I
have looked in vain in their organs for
something that looks like old democracy,
such as “ we have gained the great prin
ciple of non-interference by Congress with
slavery in the State, the Territory and the
district of Columbia, which is worth an
empire.” Let ns rally to the rescue of
those Conservative Democrats or ths
North, who are so noblt battling tor
our rights. Let us with them plant our
selves upon that platform constituted
rob us at Cincinnati, and come what may
let us stand firm.” Mr. Toombs and CoL
Stiles could thus talk in 1856, but now
they wish to throw aside these old phra
ses, which, in days past, made true dem
ocratic hearts throb with patriotism, and
when the storm of battle raged, and dem
ocrats, both North and South were falling
before the foe, nerved democratic arms for
the final charge and caused our old flag to
wave high amidst shouts of victory.
Now we hear discord, disruption, seces
sion, abuse, vituperation thundering from
all parts of our country. The Black Re
publicans of the north are throwing their
bomb shells into our old democratic fort,
and scattering death destruction and ruin
on every hand, and the disunienists are
firing their deadly Dalgreen guns at its
old walls, hoping to see its ramparts tum
ble down.
These sir, are sad times for democrats.
It becomes the solemn duty of patriots to
“ look well to their going.” Sir, there is
some faction to blame for this, and let us
enquire what clique this is, and who are
its leaders, and shun them as we would
those who would set fire to the temple of
liberty. Who led theseceders at Charles
ton and made the first rent in the demo
cratic flag?
The Hon. Wm. L. Yancey, of Alabama.
What are his antecedents?
In 1848 he made war on the democratic
party and assisted in defeating General
Cass. In 1852 he was in the Baltimore
Convention, trying to disturb its harmoni
ous action, but the union, sentiment was
overwhelming and he wa* powerless, anu
General Pierce was nominated and elected.
In 1856 he was in the Cincinnati Conven
tion, and together with the balance of the
Alabama delegation, demanded the adop
tion of the great principle of “ non-inter
vention" or “ non-interference” now called
“popular” or “squatter sovereignty,”
threatening that if this doctrine was not
incorporated in the Cincinnati platform
he and his delegation would withdraw from
the Convention. And to his astonishment,
the Convention unanimously adopted into
its platform, all that the South, and even
Mr. Yancey demanded, and again he foiled
to break up the party.
The Convention adopted this doctrine
at the earnest request ofthe Southern del
egatee, hut more especially Mr. Yancey.
And Mr. Stiles says “ its leading object
era* to de justice to tho injured South, by
restoring to her again, her lost equality in
the Union end to rattle forever, on * per
manent basis, the vexed question of sla-
▼cry.
In 1860 Mr. Yancey is again a delegate
to the National Democratic Convention at
Charleston, and again he and bis delega
tion have an ultimatum, and the conven
tion is threatened that if it is not adopt
ed they will secede and break up the par
ty. At Cincinnatti he got his ultimatum,
but foiled to break up the party. At
Charleston his “Cincinnatti ultimatum”
is denounced as a “cheat,” “swindle,” Ac.,
and “new tests” must be applied to de
mocracy, and new “planks put into ths
platform,” or the party divided, beaten and
destroyed. Thera “new teste” and “new
planks,” are voted down, snd he with his
anti-democratic allies secede from the con
vention, and he is jubilant over the down
fall of democracy, snd the prospect of dis
union. But he is not yet successful.
Ths convention still continued to work for
harmony. True patriots both North and
South still strove to ssve the party and
tha country. The friends of Mr. Douglas
are lagely in the majority, and could nom
inate him easily by abandoning the two-
thirds rule, but patriotism forbid that
course, and for the sake of the party and
the country, they adjourn to Baltimore,
and invite the people to send np delegates
snd yet save the country. This is done
and Mr. Yancey is ruled out, (no doubt
to his great satis&ction,) the Georgia se-
eeders are admitted, .but refuse to aid or
do anything for harmony, and after get.
ting seats against the “Nationals,” go out
because Mr. Yancey and his delegation
■ml the Louisiana delegation ere ruled out.
The convention is thus broken up and the
party divided, and it may be destroyed,
without an effort on the part of Mr. Yan
cey or his friends from Georgia, (as it ap
pears to me.) to avert thejdanger and pre
vent our party’s ruin. Now, air, was all
this right? What does it mean ? Mr.
Yancey’s own wards will raise the veil
and discover the dark clouds and lurid
storms which howl behind. Listen, ohl
my Union-loving democratic friends and
“pot year house in coder.” He says:—
»We ah*B fire the Southern heart, in
struct the Southern mind, give courage to
each other, an at the proper time, hyena
concerted action, wx cam fbhcititatb the
Cotton States into a mvoLunoN.”
Sir, I fear the time has come, when
these secedera are endeavoring “to firb
Southern heart and precipitate the cotton
into a Revolution.” The Hon. R.
B. Rhett, of South Carolina, who has been
out ef politics for years, and would affili
ate with no party which had not for ita
object a dissolution of the Union, and the
' Hon. John A.
has cursed all parties, especially the Union
for jeon, with hundred# ef avowed disu-
niooista of the South, an in active co-op
eration with the encoders, end supporting
Breckinridge and Lane. 8ir, there are cir-
cumatanoas which portend evfl to eur
yeomanry of the land to come out
and stifle the howling* of abolitionism on
the one hand, and the gutteral croaking*
of disunion on the other.
Sir, if these seceders do precipitate us
into a revolution and hurl ns into the vor
tex of disunion, liberty—sweet blood
bought liberty—
“ Like the dew on the mountain;
Like the foam on the river;
Like the bubble on tho fountain,
Will he gone; androaavBa!”
Sir, when the horrid notes of intestine
strife and civil war shall roll over our feir
land; when our fields shall be saddened
with fraternal blood; when the lurid light
of burning cities, towns, villages and
country homes, shall mark the path of
internecine war; when the cry of the war
made widow, and the wail of orphans
shall greet our ears; when freedom’s sun
shall have set forever behind the crimson
clouds of disunion, and extinguished its
last glorious ray in a sea of freemen’s
gore; when the British lion shall roar in
triumph over the torn and lifeless body of
the American Eagle; when “liberty” and
“freedom” shall be the bye-words of Eu
ropean despots, and the sons of revolu
tionary sires shall be compelled to wor
ship crowned heads, and be kicked and
cuffed as slaves, it will be too late to con
demn these seceders and disunionists.—
Now is the time to rebuke them. We can
nip disunion in the bud. We can teach
them that we know our rights and dare
maintain them. We can drive these dis
organizes back into private life, and learn
them that secession movements are not
popular, and let us rise in our might and
by one united effort in N^Temb^r, con
sign all thifce treasonable ideas and move
ment§ to an early grave, and let the
dark waters of oblivion settle over them
so deep that no lead will ever sound them.
Sir, there are two parties to be defeat
ed, the Black Republicans and seceders or
disunionists. The former led by Lincoln
and Hamlin, and the latter by Breckin
ridge and Lane. Who can do this?—
Must it not be done either by Douglas and
Johnson, or Bell and Everett. Who stands
the best chance to defeat Lincoln ? The
man who car get the most votes in the
Northern States. Who is that man ?—
Every one must admit that it is Stephen
A. Douglas.
Who are fighting Mr. Douglas, and who
fear him most in the Northern States ?—
The Black Republicans.
^Why do the abolitionists hate Stephen
A. Douglas ? Because he has always been
their enemy end the friend of the South,
and because he has always whipped them
in every fight..
Why do the seceders hate Stepheu A.
Douglas now so badly? They used to
praise and laud him to the skies. He still
stands on the Cincinnatti platform, and
is still fighting the abolitionists. It must
be became ha will not leave hia old dem
ocratic doctrine, or became he is opposed
to disunion. Sir, if he, (as all must con
fess,) stands the best chance to defeat the
Black Republicans, shall we, as good and
true democrats, forsake him because he
will not forsake hi* old “ confession of
feitb,” or because he is not for disunion ?
I think the chances are at present, that
by reason of the division of the democrat
ic party in the South, Bell and Everett
will carry a majority of the Southern
States; but if they do it will not defeat the
election of the Black Republicans, and
will do no good, except the defeat of the
disunionists. Therefore, I hope all good
and true men of all parties in the South
will unite on Mr. Douglas and savs the
country.
I see an able and patriotic article in
your paper over the signature of “ Con
senrative,” suggesting a fusion of the Bell
and Douglas forces in Gcorgis. I appre
ciate the motives of the. writer- snd am
willing to concsde that Bell A Everett are
good and true men, that their party is ac
tuated by pure motives, and that the coun
try would be safe in their hands, but am
opposed to the fusion. First, because it is
bad policy, and would probably weaken
both parties in the State. Second, we
differ from the opposition in principle.—
We differ materially upon the teritorial
policy of the government and many other
material points. Iam in fevor of preserving
the democratic party and her principles;
and notwithstanding we may be defeated
in this contest in Georgia, by the opposi
tion and the seceders, (which I do not be
lieve,) if we stand firm by our time-hon
ored party snd principles, the broken frag
ments which will be carried off by the
seceders, and patriotic opposition men
will come with us hereafter, and rally a-
round the old democratic flag which has
been borne aloft by Jackson, Polk, Cass,
Pierce and other gallant chieftains, and
future generations will glory in the suc
cess of our party, and enjoy blessings
which our principles will secure.
1 In the love and faith of old Democra
cy,” I subscribe myself
TAR HEEL DEMOCRAT.
That Slates nr Moms Bat.—The sto
ry going the rounds abouts cargo of slaves
having beso landed in Mobile Bay, turns
oat a hoax. Tha story sprung from the
feet, that a planter from Alabama had
bean to a more northern market, and while
there had purehaeed a lot iff hands for his
plantation, which he took borne, and lan
ded from a small coasting vessel, chartered
for the occasion., The negroes all talked
good English, were &t and jolly, under
stood how to do all kinds of work required
upon a plantation, and, in feet, were true
specimens of the Sambo race, ae beheld
Jonee ef this Stats; who 'everywhere in OW Virginia
On the Indiana and Cincinnati tefl
wad a pleasure party rode *
when they alighted, and etoed aronna
the small platform covering tt«e^pW"*J
waiting to era the can ssove before leev
log for the woods. Just rathe tram atar-
ted the skirt of one of the young
who happened to be standing rinseto “*•
train, caught on a not on the aide
can, throwing her from her feet «*J
fortunately the train n, ® rin * V*
slowly at the time, or the conaeqw
might have been more serious.
As it 1
the young lady was pretty roughly used.
A Stout man in the party, seeing her
condition, at once raised her in bre arms
and pulled with all his strength, endeavor
ing to tear her loose but the skirt was both
strong and firmly festened, and not untd
all the girl's under-clothing was pulled
from her body, and her dress torn toshn$>
aid he succeed. All this transpired while
the train was moving a distance of twen
ty or thirty feet, when the conductor saw
the danger and instantly checked its mo
tion. Indeed, the girl was not entirely
released until the train had stopped. Af
ter the excitement of the moment had pass
ed it was discovered that the soles of both
the girl’s shoes by the resistance she had
offered the train had been completely strip
ped away, leaving the uppers upon her
feet. Strange to say, she escaped any se-
rious-injury. She was immediately encir
cled by a riumber of her female friends,
who conveyed her to the village, where her
wfnts were properly attended to.
mtlNB Mli IM*
Tb « well-informed and reliable oorrws
poodent ef the N. O. Delta, who, we be-
fint to announce the candidacy
of Horaten derate in the following etn
jfcHtieatyk that the old Governor 1mm
the Presidential ring:
Araim* Tela# July 1*.—A statement
has come tohand in the Louisville Jeur-
that General Houston bra withdrawn
cuirass for the the Presidency
fdli now supporting Mr. Bell. This
11,1, * is untrue. Gen. Houston »
still in the field and will remain ao. His
friends an more enthusiastic than ever,
and have assurances from abroad, which
warrant tho belief that he will aocn have
electoral tickets in many of the States.—
So far frem his withdrawing and auppor
tmg Mr. Bell it is now confidently be
lieved that the friends of Mr. Ball, seeing
that tho greet mass of those whom they
hope will support him prefer Gen. Hous
ton on account of his ability to overthrow
Black Republicanism at tho North, and
his prograesivo ideas, will unit* and with
draw him and unite upon old Sand^^-ei
Old San Jacinto-never KT» baen known
to withdraw from any position which he
bas assumed. He has no reason to wish
to leavo this canvass. His fri ends in Tex
as will go with him to the end of the race.
A Boy’s Sight Strangle y Lost and Res
tored.
The editor of the Knoxville, (Tenn.,)
“ Witness” tells the following remarkable
story :
A little bo» in that region waked up
one Corning last winter and discovered
that he was blind.
He is twelve or thirteen years old and
up to that morning his sight had been per
fect When told the second time by bis
farther to get up he replie i: “ Father, is
it day light?’ 1 “Yes, long ago.” “Then
father,” tbelftfle fellow sadly said, I am
biind.’ And so he was. His aigbt was
gone.
The boy was recently taken to Nash
ville for medical treatment The doctors
declined to do anything for him, howev
er. But during his stay in the city his
his sight suddenly returnedwhen he threw
his arms around his fathers neck and ex
claimed : Oh, father, I can see."
The Great Eastern.—Cargo or Cot
ton.—The New York Herald of Monday
says:
“ We understand that arrangements are
on the tapis with the directors ofthe Great
Eastern to take her to Norfolk, Va.,
previous to her return to England, am
there load her with thirty thousand ball
of cotton for the British market. It is
not stated where this cotton is to come
from. The freight on cotton being a farth
ing, British money, per pound, or about
half a cent, this cargo would amount to
little more than sixty thousand dollars
freight money. This is no doubts move
ment on the part of the votaries of direct
Southern trade with Europe, that tho
South is always threatening to inaugurate
of which the Great Eastern is to be the en
tering wedge, and it must be admitted that
they have selected a pretty big wed|
on this occasion.”
Which i» the Rational Candidate ?
In 1856, Mr. Buchanan receivtd one
million, two hundred and twenty-six.thou
sand three hundred and fifty-tjo votes in
the North, and six hundred and eleren
thousand eighty at the South. That ia,
he received about .twice as many votas at
the North, as he dicLat the South.
Now, in November next Douglas will
receive nearly the entire Democratic vote
ofthe North—perhaps all of it—aa the
Administration papers advocate the run
ning of electoral tickets only in the South.
It is also asserted, by authority that tke
Bell men ef New York will support Mr.
Douasa* {owr informant is an American. )
It is certain that Mr. Douglas will get
at least a third of the southern Democratic,
vote, and mere; probaly over half of it
But to put the figures at the lowest
possible point, Mr. Douglas win get a mil
lion and a half of Democratic votes.
Give, th«n Mr. Breckinridge the re
maining four bundled thousand, which
is all b* caa hope for, and then let the
question at tha head of this article be an
swered.—Conetitutionalut.
.cir
nd\ u
Dangles in Virginia.
Wm. G. Brown another of the Douglas
delegates to the Baltimore Convention bas
addressed a letter to his constituents con
cluding as follows:
In conclusion, I will say to you that 1
h'.vo no objection to Mr. Breckinridge; I
supported him four years ago on the Cin-
innati platform. I would have cheerfully
pported him again on either the same
the new one on which ho ia now placed
ifhnhadbeen nominated by the regular
Convention; but I cannot vote for him
as the nominee of a soceders’ Coaventioa
not called by tho people. If Douglas can
not bo elected I will bo glad to aee Breck
inridge dacted; if neither can bo elected I
will than be glad to era Bell our President.
If bower, -the brooking up of tho Demo
shall result in the election of
ticket, 1 trust those who
it about will exercise
under our common affiie-
Political Chances in Illinois.—A
respondent of the Cincinati Enqur,
from Moor’s Prairie Precinct, in southern
Illinois, after giving an account of a
Douglas ratification meeting in that place
says:
“Many Fillmore men came out last
night publicly for Douglas, and I assure
you that more will do likewia# between f.tary in the Territories, is a violation of
now and the November election.
-- I learn that in Hamilton county, in the
vicinity of Lovella there are many who
voted for Mr. Fillmore, who have came
out for Douglas and the Union, since read
ing his last speech in reply to Mr. Davis;
and so it goes.”
Mr. Douglas’ majority in Illinois will
be full twenty thousand.
Will tort Believe Toombs?-—We be
lieve tbdtall candid men now admit that
there Were two hundred and twelve repre
sentative votes in the National convention
which nominated Douglas and as no man
objected to the proposal to declare tbs
nomination unanimous, there can be no.
doubt that the regular two-thirds nomi
nation was made.
The only 'objection which Democrats
can now have to Mr. Douglas is that his
views of slavery are unsound. But Mr.
Toombs, Georgia’s favorite Senator, has
just declared that Mr. Douglas is as sound
on slavery-as he is! Who doubts now ?
The Contest in the North.—It is un-
qestionably the truth that the contest in
the free States, for the Presidency, is be
tween Lincoln and Douglas. With whom
do Southern men sympathise ? The open
diaunionist will answer that he prefers
the election of Lincoln—and the quiet,
cautious, but hopeful diaunionist will asy
that there is not much difference betwsM
Lincoln and Douglas. Bnt the true pa
triot, the sincere Southern man and all
who revere the Constitution snd the Un
ion will unite in the heart-frit declaration
of ‘Stuccoes to Doogtea.”
Ex-Gov. Winston.—This distinguished
Democrat opened the Ball for Douglas and
Johnson, at Huntsville, on the 25th inst.
We learn says the Dadeville (Ala.) Ban
ner, that it is hia intention to canvass ev
ery county in the State.
sf the National Demeetotfo
County, held in the City of
14th, the following ml un
adopted :
'^Rtohed, That we believe the doctrine
-^Congressional intervention, aa claimed
anksaerted on the part of the secedera
it Charleston and Baltimore in their de-
cQuid for Congressional protection of ala-
the Democratic party, a violation of the
solemn compromises heretofore agreed up
on, and consequently of. our plighted faith
and we believe ia fraught with mischief
■nijgninrliiif only, and wall calculated to
effect a dissolution of tho Union, if per-
and which wo have too much
believo is the ultimate object
of then# who bavo sprung this
us and unnecessary isssue upon tbe
onal I&tblligbecer—An In-
ie death of Mr. Galea revives a
of tbe taly time Jiia paper,
the National Intelligencer, ever snapen
dad publication. It was a warm andablo
adv^^ of the Madison war policy, ac»- /
onding tha effort ofCtey and his <
an&tso powerful was ita infiu
whra General Ross; in command of tho
Brmw troops, entered tha ’capital, after
the unfortunate -affair of Bladoniburg, first
inquiry was not for the Capitol, the Presi
dent’s House, or the department, but for
tho National Intelligencer office and it waa
ths first establishment demolished, ceua-
ing a short cessation in its regular publi
cation. With this exception the Intelli-
gaficer has been published regular for six
ty years—Albany Evening Journal.
A Don Over the Falls or Niagara.—
An unfeeling fellow threw his dog in to
the Niapra River, near Goat Island bridge
tha other fey to teat the question wheth
er it was possible for animals to be carried
over tbe feQa and escape alive, and im
mediately want to the foot
af the ferry stain and found the dog but
Htte injured by the tremendous leap.—
The experiment wa# tried to convince
incredulous parson.
Tbe only exception to tbe rule “Delaye
is on mmragefeya-
The whole Wart, from the Ohio to the
MMomi fe aid to be a vast grain field.—
It is artiMted that th« State of Oh* wiU .
bar* thirty mBUon bushels of wheat—five
—wtn mere than it ha* ever produced
before, and it la sf fee hart
sf :